Diana rubens bio

The director of the regional Veterans' Affairs office in Philadelphia will be reinstated following an investigation of her use of personal funds – a move that Rep.

John Carney, D-Del. has challenged.

The Philadelphia Regional Office manages the Wilmington benefits office and Diana Rubens, a Delaware native and long-time VA employee, was sent to take charge of it in June of 2014. She expensed over $270,000 to the government for her moving costs from Washington D.C., where she had been the deputy undersecretary for field operations, according to a report from the VA's Office of the Inspector General.

That expense prompted the Inspector General's six-month investigation, which was made public last September and led to Rubens' transfer to a lower-rung job in Houston.

She appealed that transfer with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, which hears the appeals of employment decisions for workers at several government departments.

The transfer